Attention

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xnHS29IjwQ

monika is asking i'm doing my attention

practices

i can see that there are more emotions

coming maybe i have become more

sensitive yes it's possible the

attention makes the layers more

sensitive just like if you get uh cut on

your

hand or leg let us say on the body if

you don't attend to it there is less

pain you don't even notice the pain but

if you focus on that pain you will find

that it is always there it is very

intense so you distract yourself by

watching tv listening to music talking

to somebody doing something else so your

attention is now

shifted to something else and the pain

does not trouble you that much so what

something similar must be happening that

the emotions are always there more or

less the tiny ones and the major ones

but we don't pay attention to them but

now that you are sitting and noticing

you will see that there are more and

they are not more they were always there

you see the attention practice has

nothing in it

that can cause emotions you can see it

is simply shifting of

the point of perception where am i

perceiving today what i'm perceiving now

that is attention you can shift it to

other objects so there is nothing in it

this method has nothing in it to

generate more emotions

and yes it will increase the sensitivity

that is just like i gave the example of

the pain any sensation will be magnified

if you attend to it

so there were always emotions what we

call as the causal emotions causal uh

tendencies they will start appearing as

emotions because they find a point of

escape now in the form of emotions

they see i'm speaking metaphorically

here that they see that the owner of the

emotion is paying attention to these

things finally so

they line up just like when you feed

dogs now they line up to get the food

they get all the attention and similarly

the

structure the memory structure whatever

you call as mind in ordinary language

especially the causal layer gets a

chance to purge the pending emotions the

pending issues

so this is a very big paradox which i

have seen myself actually i have

experienced it myself that people do all

kinds of meditation to silence their

thoughts

for the peace of mind and so on and as

soon as the second meditation they get a

deluge a big

flood of emotions and thoughts so then

they complain you know this method is

not good give me some method which makes

me totally dumb and like rock and they

do that kind of method then but no that

is not going to stop it it will simply

suppress it

so my suggestion to monica is do not

simply attend become the witness also if

you become the witness of what whatever

is coming through these layers they will

be cleared

sublimation in the tantric field we call

it sublimationation or in the kundalini

field this is the sublimation what is

the meaning of sublimation when the

solid turns into gas directly without

going through the liquid phase

so the tendencies without going through

the karmic manifestation they are

satisfied they're sublimated

it is a powerful method so i have given

you only 10 minutes or 15 minutes i

think in the video but that much is

enough because probably your

accumulation is too much in the past you

have accumulated in the present life

also you're accumulating where is it

nobody has taught us the art of letting

go when the event happens it is not

useful

what should we do we should let go

forget forgive and what do we do we

accumulate we stick

we

say that it is mine and that is the

biggest

mistake it is not mine as soon as you

say that it is not mine is gone you see

it's gone because check your own

experience that

if something is stolen from your house

let us say your servant steals something

it is a very very irritating painful

event because it was yours isn't it if

something is stolen from somebody else's

house person you don't even know hell

you don't pay attention to it even for a

second you comment like this you know

the servants are no more

faithful these days you cannot trust

your servants something like this and

you move on nothing has happened because

it's not yours

the owning is powerful you need to let

go it is not mine i am only witness

this is called awareness

sakshi bhav

now the power from it is removed it is

sublimated it is just another event in

the

universal memory just like all other

events are happening there all the

events are happening in the universal

memory why should i own this one there

is no logical reason yes if it is

concerned with the survival

then the creature is going to own it

that is necessary but if there is some

random emotion something you know in the

past something from the future worries

what will happen something like this

and they produce emotions there is no

need to own it it is completely useless

because you don't need to act on it

so my suggestion will be that become the

witness you are doing you are getting

the results now so that means you are

doing it correctly isn't it it is

working so

our purpose is not to simply bring up

the accumulation our purpose is to

sublimate it and that is possible only

by being the witness therefore the

attention is to be combined with

awareness otherwise simply paying

attention will drive you mad it is the

road to madness

which many people do either they do a

practice which simply suppresses

whatever is their reason they go in some

kind of trans state where nothing is

seen nothing is witnessed and they think

oh i am so peaceful today no it is like

sleeping why don't you simply sleep then

but this this kind of thing will not

sublimate anything so i borrowed this

word sublimation today just to explain

it is not given in our videos

so let it come actually you will be

given only that much which you can

handle don't worry if you are totally

aware if you are totally knowledge that

i know what is happening now curiously

you see it and you will find that the

purification is permanent it is gone

forever so hopefully that will help you

and

send the reports as usual

anu is asking

my past memories are popping up i'm

witnessing them but they are recurring

again and again what's the meaning of

this

depends on the memory what is your

attachment to it you see if there is an

attachment in the past then they will

come up again and again because the mind

perceives it as an issue to be solved so

it will keep putting keep putting that

issue in front of you again and again

what is the issue and

you will see that as soon as you resolve

that issue it can be disowning not mine

it can be forgiving okay it happened

nobody's fault it was only my mistake

something like this you know change your

attitude towards whatever has happened

in the past of love and forgiving

it does not mean that you know if a

person is involved or any event is

involved it does not mean that you go

there and ask for forgiveness no

that will be a big mistake isn't it you

need to do it in the mind so clear it up

change the attitude and

you will see the difference now it is

the mind will just stamp it as resolved

it is done

you can imagine like there is a to-do

list in the memory structure a to-do

list on the top is the unresolved issues

of your life they can be of past lives

also you know it happens to many that

the past life's issues they start coming

and on the bottom is your desires and

whatever and the bottom most is simply

entertainment things you want to do

these things at that thing so this to-do

list keeps coming just like your to-do

list what should i do today what is the

most important thing priority today so

that is on top and as you tick mark you

know this is done that is done then the

list becomes less and less so here in

case of anu

she is witnessing very good now you need

to add a tail to it that's what i call

it technically

that memory which has popped up and it's

not going back it's not you know

sublimating then you need to add a tail

to it the tail has to be positive the

tail has should be colored in the color

of done it is done there is no more

issue nothing to be done here

this is called forgiving also but

forgiving is a

complicated thing but this thing is you

know should be marred as resolved this

issue is resolved now and you don't

have to only say it

you need to change your attitude towards

it nothing really happened here nothing

important and

it will come back again don't worry it

will come back again but it will come

back with the tail which you added it

will come back in the color of resolved

and the mental machinery will say oh it

is resolved and every time it comes back

it will become less and less important

finally it won't come back

this is the technique and you must be

thinking that oh this will be a whole

day no no one second thought comes

resolve it stamp it gone sit down

quietly more thoughts resolve them

actually i have gone through this

process myself

and there was so much that it used to

come in the dreams also in the dreams

the to-do list pops up

this fellow misbehaved with me now the

whole dream is about taking revenge or i

did not get this it was injustice and

the whole dream is about being angry or

killing people

and

blasting them with bombs and so on you

see this is the male dream the female

dream will be something

less violent but it is painful so the

trick

i used

is to become aware in the dreams it is

called

the intention in modern language you can

call it programming you program your

mind in the waking state that i'll

become aware when this event happens in

the dream it is very effective and you

actually imagine that event happening in

the waking state and you then you become

aware of it not imagine being aware you

become actually aware

and you know this will repeat because

mind is a creature of habit habit you

know program something and it repeats

it's a machine so that repeated in the

dream now the dream became a very dream

instantly this is how you get control in

the dreams by awareness only there is no

other on the path of knowledge we don't

have the tantric tools this is the best

tool we have best weapon

so as soon as i became aware in the

dream and they even started this to-do

list unresolved issues and instead of

acting in the mechanical way the same

way you know because of the awareness i

could change it and the person was

troubling me in the dream i could

change my attitude there okay okay come

in you're most welcome okay have tea

okay we'll watch the movie so on you see

instead of that impurity i was

able to convert it into something

less important you see and the result

you can guess the dreams disappeared

forever

even the in the waking state because i

am you are aware isn't it

so the mind does not get a chance to

trouble you that much in the dreaming

it knows

easy easy to trouble you but then you

take your awareness in the dream

then you know the real purification will

happen isn't it

so this is what i'm sharing

okay i'm coming to a news first let me

check what is mary saying

if we say it is not mine doesn't it mean

denying or suppressing to experience the

experience or denying experiencing

emotions in different feelings no no no

you see saying it is not mine will not

terminate the experience

it will continue whatever memory is

there whatever emotion is there you have

to see it completely

you should not stop it and the stopping

happens automatically just like you

watch the rain falling you watch the

breeze blowing and

you watch the sunrise and sunset do you

say it is mine

no but will the experience terminate if

you say no it is not mind so will it go

away no

so there are two kinds of rejection

this one is in awareness and the second

one is no i don't want it i don't want

this to happen to me and that is

suppression attitude is everything here

in the awareness the attitude is of

neutral watching neutrally watching not

suppressing with this full knowledge

that it is not mine

obviously nothing is yours isn't it

nothing is yours and the level of

duality you are the emptiness

so

being in this knowledge don't even have

to say anything don't even have to think

anything be in this attitude the

sakshi bhav

being the witness not doing something

you know not saying something or not

thinking something don't do anything be

that which you are it is you know some

people call it complete acceptance but

we don't say acceptance because then you

know it it means that all these things

are mine i accept them

no no no

acceptance means letting it be that

which it is not owning or not rejecting

oh it is something it came up

impurity you don't even need to call it

impurity because it's so natural isn't

it it is just a reaction of the

mechanism there

mostly lower things sometimes it is

higher so higher example of higher can

be you know

somebody

came to came for help to me somebody

knocked at my door i want help and i

could not help him let us say because of

something now this thought is going to

trouble me it is not related to the

lower layers not emotion not desires

not survival not anger it is something

higher my need to help others was not

satisfied and this can be troubling

thing so this needs to be disowned again

with complete acceptance that okay okay

did not happen

what can i do

so that it goes away

so not suppression

the all these tendencies they can be

dealt they can be managed in three ways

like you know those who have listened to

the podcast first is

satisfaction you do whatever is needed

assuming that it is mine second is

suppression which you know what it is

the third is witnessing awareness where

you don't need to do anything it is not

suppressed also